Job-printer s case



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G. W. BUTLER.

JOB PRINTERS GASE- No. 326,475. Patented Sept. 15,1885.-

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NITED STATES GEORGE NV. BUTLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

JOB-PRINTERS CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,475, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed May 6,1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BUTLER, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in J ob-Printers Cases, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion.

My invention relates to improvements in job printers cases; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents an open face view of the doublecase, and Fig. 2 a vertical section of the same when closed.

A indicates an upper, and B a lower, case. These cases are made regulation size to fit ordinary office-stands, and are provided with cleats on their backs to prevent them from slipping. When in use, the lower case, B, is designed to be horizontal, or nearly so; but the upper case, which contains the type, 8m, will stand inclining upward and backward and from the compositor, as usual with single cases of ordinary construction.

Said two cases are fitted and divided up as follows: In the lower case, B, is a large compartment or space, I), for the reception of a job-galley, to the left of which is a series oflong narrow compartments, 0, for card-boards and thick paper out quad high and of suitable length for the various purposes required by the compositor. Immediately above these compartments 0 in the lower case, B, is a box, d, for the reception of odds and ends. To the right of the compartment 1) is another compartment, e, the upper portion of which may be used to contain emery-paper for polishing the flat surfaces of rules and the lower portion thereof for holding composing-rules of various lengths.

The upper case, A, is divided up and fitted, first, with a series of upper right-hand compartments, f, for containing leads from one and a half (1%) to four (4) picas in length and four to pica, six to pica, eight to pica in thickness. Below these compartments, at the same right-hand side of the upper case, is a (No model.)

series of diagonally-divided compartments, 9 g, the one diagonal series of which serves to contain nonpareil slugs and the other to contain leads graduating in length from five (5) to twenty (20) picas, both inclusive. To the left of these diagonally-divided compartments is a lower space or compartment, 7:, for holding head-lines, display-lines, &c., until required and above this is another compartment, t, for containing shears, bodkin, nippers, lead-pencil, and pin-cushion It, all of which are in demand from time to time by the compositor. Furthermore, at the left hand of said upper case is an upper compartment, Z, covered by a lid, m, for the reception of copy, time-tickets, and proofs, and below this a compartment, n, for a tray of removable figure and space boxes 0 0, to be used in rule-and-figure work and the correction of time tables, tariffs, &c. These boxes, being removable, can be readily filled and emptied, and do away with the annoyance of having recourse to two independent cases where the body of the work is in one kind of type and the figuresin another. The same are made to fit in the figure and space compartments of regular cases, and by thus combining them the advantage of setting and distributing will readily be seen.

The convenience of the two cases A B divided as described,to the compositor will save a large amount of time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In job-printers cases, the case A, having arranged within it a series of compartments,- f, for containingleads,diagonally-divided compartments g g, for holding slugs and leads of different lengths, a compartment, h, foriholdin g head and display lines or like work,a compartment, t, for shears, nippers, and other tools or manipulating articles, a compartment, Z, fitted with a cover, for the reception of copy, time-tickets, and proof, or any of them, and a compartment, a, holding a tray of removable figure and space boxes, essentially as bescribed.

GEORGE lV. BUTLER;

Witnesses:

J ACOB ENNEUs, E. B. FITCH. 

